Slavic and East European Languages
2022 Call for Papers
The 2021 first-ever virtual AATSEEL conference was a remarkable success, with excellent attendance and generally positive reviews from participants. We are awfully excited, though, to look forward to an in-person conference in Philadelphia in 2022. We are actively accepting proposals for pre-formed panels, roundtables and individual papers for the 2022 conference through July 1, 2021 (first round). There will be a second round of submissions reviewed after August 15, 2021.
The AATSEEL National Meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2022 conference, which will be held in Philadelphia February 17-20, 2022. The conference regularly includes panels in the following areas:
Linguistics
Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Linguistics and Pedagogy.
Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Second Language Acquisition, Empirical Studies in Language Learning, Study Abroad, Teaching of Individual Skills (pronunciation, reading, listening, writing, speaking), Content-based Instruction (in film, history, politics, culture, literature, etc.), Curriculum Design, Language Teaching for Special Purposes, Teaching of Languages other than Russian (Polish, Czech, BCS, Romanian, etc.), Use of Technology in Language Teaching.
Literature and Culture
Individual Writers and Poets (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Nabokov and others), Themes (history and literature, travelogues, gendered readings, etc.), Critical approaches (including various theoretical approaches), Genre (avtorskaia pesnia, ode, drama), Periods (medieval to contemporary), Culture, Film, Dance, Music, Philosophy, and Religion.
How To Submit A Proposal
The Program Committee will accept proposals for the following six formats:
- individual paper
- fully-formed panel
- roundtable
- forum
- poster presentation
All prospective participants are strongly encouraged to consult the 2022 Conference Proposal Guidelines for additional information and to answer any questions. Additional questions about the proposal submission and decision processes may be directed to the Program Committee Chair, Ainsley Morse (ainsley.e.morse@dartmouth.edu).
Each proposal will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Proposals for all formats should not exceed 300 words, but a successful, effective proposal for any format can certainly be shorter.
Proposals for individual papers must identify a problem that needs solving in the fields of linguistics, pedagogy, literature, and/or culture, or present a hypothesis that sheds light on the interpretation of a text or body of texts. It should outline the author's plan for defending the paper’s hypothesis or advancing an interpretation. An abstract should not provide more than minimal background to the issue addressed in the paper, unless the background itself is the issue, and should not give more than a brief suggestion of the paper’s conclusions.
Proposals for fully-formed panels in Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition or in Literature and Culture (for panel proposals in Linguistics, see below) will now contain, in addition to a panel title, the titles of individual papers and names and email addresses of presenters, chair, and discussant (if there is one), a single paragraph-long statement, prepared by the panel organizer (who can also serve as one of the presenters, the chair, or the discussant). This single-paragraph proposal should also not exceed 300 words, and like a paper proposal it can be shorter. It must contain a concise description of the rationale for bringing the individual papers together as a panel and describe briefly how each paper fits into the discussion.
No individual proposals for papers submitted as part of a fully-formed panel in Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition or in Literature and Culture need to be included at the time the panel is proposed. If a panel proposal is accepted by the Program Committee, the organizer will be responsible for obtaining from each participant a description of each paper for the online program, and sending in those descriptions to the Program Committee Chair by September 30, 2021. These descriptions, like individual proposals, should outline the author’s plan for defending the paper’s hypothesis or advancing an interpretation. If a description is not sent for an individual paper on an accepted panel, that paper may be deleted from the program.
Proposals for fully-formed panels in Linguistics should contain a concise description of the panel, consisting of a rationale for bringing the individual papers together as a panel and brief description of how each paper fits into the theme of the panel. Effective 2012, proposals for fully-formed panels in Linguistics must also contain a standard abstract for each individual paper in the panel. Panel proposals in Linguistics may be composed of the following participants:
- a chair and 3 single- or co-authored papers
- a chair and 4 single- or co-authored papers
- a chair and 3 single- or co-authored papers and 1 discussant
The panel organizer may be any of the above-listed participants, but no participant may serve in a second participant role on the same panel (e.g., chair and (co-)author, chair and discussant, (co-author and discussant, etc.). The panel proposal should be submitted by the panel organizer and should contain, at the beginning, the panel title, the names and email addresses of the chair, the presenters, and the discussant (if there is one), and the titles of the individual papers. (Please repeat that information there even though it is entered in the list of participants above the Panel Description field.) That information should be followed by the panel description (as outlined above), which should not exceed 300 words, exclusive of the list of names and panel or paper titles. Panel themes may be broad or narrow, but panels in which the papers are focused on or connected to a particular topic, topic area or problem which provides a connective thread are encouraged (e.g., a panel on Aspect in Slavic, or Russian Dialectology, or Reflexes of the Neo-Acute in BCS, rather than on Russian Linguistics, or South Slavic Linguistics, where the papers might have little relation to each other). In addition to the panel description and list of papers, a standard abstract (as described for individual paper proposals earlier) for each paper in the panel must be included in the overall panel proposal (uploaded as provided for in the submission form). The individual paper abstracts should not exceed 300 words, exclusive of examples in the text and bibliographic references at the end. The panel proposal form will allow organizers to add presenters one at a time and to upload an abstract file for each one. The panel description itself should be entered in the field labeled “Panel Description” below the list of participants.
Proposal deadlines are July 1, 2021 and August 15, 2021.
How to Resubmit a Proposal
Abstracts recommended for revise/resubmit should be submitted to the website as a new proposal for the second round. Please do not edit your initial submission as this will fail to show up in the system and will not be sent out for review.
Multiple Participation
There is no limit on how many times a member can appear on the program. Participants are limited to one single-authored paper in the general conference and one single-authored paper in each stream session (“A” and “B”); however, a member presenting a single-authored paper may also present a co-authored paper, as long as at least one additional co-author is registered and present at the conference (in other words, as long as the second paper results in registration for and attendance at the conference by an additional person).
The first deadline allows for revision and resubmission of proposals, should reviewers deem that necessary. The second deadline does not allow for resubmission. Proposals should be no longer than 300 words. Detailed guidelines for proposals and published program abstracts from past years are available on the AATSEEL website.
The Program Committee notes that all conference participants in a proposal must be AATSEEL members in good standing (or request a membership waiver) for the proposal to be sent out for review. Membership can be renewed online on the AATSEEL website.
Please contact the area heads below with questions on submitting in each of the respective areas:
Area Heads:
Head of the Stream division
Dr. Meghan Murphy-Lee
Foreign Languages and Literature
Curtin Hall 824
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
(414) 229-4949
Email: murphyle@gmail.com
Assistant to the Chair of Program Committee
Rose Fitzpatrick
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
688 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 425
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R1
Tel: 514-398-3650
Email: R.Fitzpatrick@dal.ca
Linguistics
Prof. Robert Channon
School of Languages and Cultures
Purdue University
640 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-1683
Email: channon@purdue.edu
Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Julia Mikhailova, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Teaching Stream
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
121 St. Joseph Street, AH 413
Phone: (416) 926-1300 (ext.3217)
Fax: (416) 926-2076
Email: juliamikhailova@yahoo.com
Literature and Culture Division Heads
Pre-1900: Victoria Juharyan, Middlebury College
1900-1950: Colleen McQuillen, University of Southern California
1950- : Molly Thomasy Blasing, University of Kentucky
Film and Media: Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University
Central and Eastern European: Kristin Bidoshi, Union College
AATSEEL Membership and Conference Pre-registration. In conformity with AATSEEL's bylaws, all conference participants must be members of AATSEEL in good standing and must pre-register for the conference by December 15, 2021.
AATSEEL Membership: Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent only to AATSEEL members in good standing. Membership expires June 30th each year. Presenters at the conference must have current memberships.
Conference Registration: Conference participants who have not pre-registered by December 15, 2021 will not be listed in the conference program.
Exceptions to Membership Requirement:
Non-Slavists may apply to the Executive Director, Elizabeth Durst
Exemptions to Conference Registration: Colleagues from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for whom the conference cost would prove a significant financial hardship may apply to the Executive Director, Elizabeth Durst (aatseel@usc.edu) for exemption from the registration requirement, which will be determined on an individual basis. Please request exemption from the registration requirement when you submit your proposal, so as to avoid being excluded from the program for failure to register. In addition, poets participating in the Poetry Reading who are not Slavists and are not taking part elsewhere in the program are exempt from the conference registration requirement, as well as the AATSEEL membership requirement.